[The Endangered Species Act] has the
power to halt even important and emergency life-saving operations....
common sense has little to do with the implementation."
- Congressman Richard Pombo (R-CA), Shattered Dreams: 100
Stories of Government Abuse, The National Center for Public
Policy Research (2003).

"ANWR [the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge] provides expanded energy resources and increased work
opportunities for Teamster members and their families. We cannot
understand how so-called friends of working families can stand
in the way of responsible job creation like ANWR, which already
has bi-partisan support to pass on a straight up or down vote."
- President of the Teamsters Union, Jimmy Hoffa, to The National
Center for Public Policy Research, March 27, 2002.

"In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds
of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash
programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent
a substantial increase in the world death rate..." - Paul
Ehrlich, The Population Bomb (1971).

"The standard of living has risen
along with the size of the world's population since the beginning
of recorded time. There is no convincing economic reason why
these trends toward a better life should not continue indefinitely."
- Julian Simon, former Professor of Business Administration at
the University of Maryland, as quoted by Freedom's Nest at http://www.freedomsnest.com/cgi-bin/qa.cgi?ref=simjul.

"Any increase in CAFE [corporate
average fuel efficiency standards] as currently structured could
produce additional road casualties... these [CAFE] changes in
the fleet were responsible for an additional 13,000 to 26,000
incapacitating injuries and 97,000 to 195,000 total injuries
in 1993... the reductions that have occurred in passenger-vehicle
size from model year 1970 to 1982 are associated with approximately
2,000 additional occupant fatalities annually." - National
Academy of Sciences study "Effectiveness and Impact of Corporate
Average Fuel Economy Standards 2002."

"The leadership of the [environmental]
movement... does tend to draw from the upper middle class, well
educated part of the social spectrum. Few of them go bowling
or to car races." - Denis Hayes, executive director for
Earth Day 1970, in a 1999 Time magazine interview.

"The truth about climate change
is that we don't know much about it... so far the scientific
evidence does not support catastrophic warming, from any cause,
human or otherwise." - James Glassman and Sallie Baliunas,
The Weekly Standard.

"[The] Kyoto [Protocol] reductions
[of industrial emissions] will have little effect [on global
temperature] in the 21st century, and 30 Kyotos' may be needed
to reduce warming to an acceptable level." - NASA's Dr.
James Hansen, a longtime global warming theory advocate in the
August 30, 2000 issue of Electricity Daily.

"From the tundra of Alaska to the
wetlands of Louisiana, a host of advanced technologies enable
the oil and gas industry to produce resources far beneath sensitive
environments." - Bill Clinton's Department of Energy publication,
"Environmental Benefits of Advanced Oil and Gas Exploration
and Production Technology, " published October, 1999 by
the U.S. Department of Energy, Assistant Secretary for Fossil
Energy, Office of Natural Gas and Petroleum Technology.

"On land and offshore, oil and
gas producers have developed innovative ways to restore sites
to original - and sometimes better-than-original - condition,
for diverse uses ranging from housing to agriculture to wildlife
habitats." - Bill Clinton's Department of Energy publication,
"Environmental Benefits of Advanced Oil and Gas Exploration
and Production Technology," published October, 1999 by the
U.S. Department of Energy, Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy,
Office of Natural Gas and Petroleum Technology.